On September 30th Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan sent a written statement to Mr. Edik Baghdasaryan, the Editor of "Hetq", congratulating him and the editorial staff on the occasion of winning the 2008 Global Shining Light Award at the Global Investigative Journalism Confrence recently held in Lillehammer, Norway. (http://www.hetq.am/eng/society/8369/). 

On behalf on the government the Prime Minister expressed a willingness "to continue the benificial and productive cooperation with reporters for the good of the state and society." The PM noted that the best example of such cooperation to be the measures taken against the illegal felling of trees in Armenia\'s regions and the "Hetq" series of articles on which such a drive is based.